Knowledge, Attitude And Uptake Of Covid-19 Vaccine Among Health Care Workers Of University Of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, with Nigeria and Borno in particular being highly affected. A vaccine provides the best hope for a permanent solution to controlling the pandemic. However, to be effective, a vaccine must be accepted and used by the healthcare workers as significant individual in the community. The objectives of this study were to assess the knowledge, attitude, anduptake of COVID-19 vaccines among healthcare workers in University of Maiduguri, teaching Hospital. Data was collected from 260 healthcare workers who were sampled using stratified sampling technique with a self-developed questionnaire. The collected data was analysed using SPSS Version 20.0 and presented in tables and charts. The result revealed a good knowledge of COVID-19 Vaccine among respondents (58.8%) with a positive attitude towards COVID-19 Vaccination (51.9%). However, uptake was low (47.69%) which was greatly affected by fear of side effects, fear of unknown and shortage of the vaccine. In conclusion, similar study can be conducted with a large sample to generalize the findings; and the same study can be conducted in different setting.

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Title: AHRO Reviews of Nursing & Midwifery

Publication date (Electronic): 20 May 2022

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

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[1 ] Impatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre (IPTC) Nurse, MSF, Maiduguri

[2 ] Department of Nursing Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakalaki, Nigeria

[3 ] Dept of Nursing Sciences, Ebonyi State of University, Abakalaki, Nigeria

[4 ] College of Nursing and Midwifery Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

[5 ] Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

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[* ]Email: reubenmarkus1414@ 123456gmail.com .

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Reuben Markus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4364-6667

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DOI: 10.36295/ARNM/2022/7600

SO-VID: 537821c8-a03f-47b6-b499-41542266ab33

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History

Date received : 30 March 2022

Date accepted : 11 April 2022

Data availability: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and its supplementary information files).

ScienceOpen disciplines: Nursing

Keywords: Covid-19 vaccination,Attitude,Health care workers,Knowledge,Uptake

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[1] Fisher Dale, Heymann David. Q&A: The novel coronavirus outbreak causing COVID-19. BMC Medicine. Vol. 18(1)2020. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. [Cross Ref]

[2] Islam Md. Saiful, Ferdous Most. Zannatul, Potenza Marc N.. Panic and generalized anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic among Bangladeshi people: An online pilot survey early in the outbreak. Journal of Affective Disorders. Vol. 276:30–37. 2020. Elsevier BV. [Cross Ref]

[3] Pal Mahendra, Berhanu Gemechu, Desalegn Chaltu, Kandi Venkataramana. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2): An Update. Cureus. 2020. Cureus, Inc. [Cross Ref]

[4] Islam Md. Saiful, Sujan Md. Safaet Hossain, Tasnim Rafia, Sikder Md. Tajuddin, Potenza Marc N., van Os Jim. Psychological responses during the COVID-19 outbreak among university students in Bangladesh. PLOS ONE. Vol. 15(12)2020. Public Library of Science (PLoS). [Cross Ref]